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by ssttoo 9y ago
There's a certain amount of legacy code, because the SDK supports old browsers. Therefore it needs polyfills. And it cannot rely on, say `if ('JSON' in window){}` because there are buggy polyfill implementations out there. So
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by ssttoo 9y ago
This "likegating" is against the terms of use
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by ssttoo 9y ago
the configurator on that page generates: 1/ sdk+like button or 2/ just an iframe with no sdk 1/ is better (proper resizing in different locales) but 2/ is always an option and it saves 60K of JS
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by ssttoo 9y ago
Forget "friends". Sharing with your family/relatives is a different thing though. No wise "quips" required. A picture says a 100 words :)
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by ssttoo 9y ago
"[Mozart] heard Gregorio Allegri's Miserere twice in performance, in the Sistine Chapel, and wrote it out from memory, thus producing the first unauthorized copy of this closely guarded property of the Vatican" https:/&
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by ssttoo 9y ago
Look up the documentary "thin red line" on YouTube
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by ssttoo 9y ago
Also one of the last professions to be automated in the future because of complexity/specialization vs monetary benefit :)
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by ssttoo 9y ago
how about overcoming technical debt you created yourself in the past? :)
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by ssttoo 9y ago
Makes me a little nervous every year whether the turbotax site will hold up as everyone is filing on the last day, juts like me. Imagine their ops folks' schedule. Arpil - December: crickets. A little bump in January as new versions of
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by ssttoo 9y ago
I went to court for riding on the sidewalk. Turns out it's not legal here (US, Los Angeles)
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by ssttoo 10y ago
> why do people drink so much, to the point of drunkenness? Many reasons. To the point of darkness because it's a thin line between a light buzz and over-the-top-cannot-even-say-my-name > Why is this so common? human nature. Not
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by ssttoo 10y ago
> Maybe originality now requires a longer format than the one-off film. Consider Game of Thrones. Not necessarily, see "Black mirror" :)
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Facebook is now worth more than Amazon(pbs.twimg.com)
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by ssttoo 10y ago
s/proprietary/opensource/ http://www.opencompute.org/ :)
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by ssttoo 10y ago
Speaking of which... Q: Why 2-ply toilet paper? A: The second copy goes to KGB
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When did blog comments die?(phpied.com)
3 points by ssttoo 10y ago|6 comments
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by ssttoo 10y ago
haha, I guess I also reinvented the wheel a few months later :) http://www.phpied.com/oversharing-with-the-browsers-autofill...
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A Tale of Four Caches(calendar.perfplanet.com)
31 points by ssttoo 10y ago|2 comments
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SpeedTracker (FOSS) to track webperf over time(calendar.perfplanet.com)
3 points by ssttoo 10y ago|0 comments
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WebMIDI and privacy/security(phpied.com)
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by ssttoo 10y ago
> given an A they can identify the C this is relative pitch > what does it mean when one claims that they have 'perfect pitch' someone starting before 6 years old (better chance of things sticking) and being sung "bah-b
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by ssttoo 10y ago
could also be about the instruments, say a violin built in the olden times tuned differently so the tension of the strings is different and the body accentuates certain harmonics in a certain way...
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by ssttoo 10y ago
It's not just French/Britain. The book "How music works" describes how each country and, hell, cities, had different tunings, so an Italian singer with a perfect pitch visiting Germany cannot really perform. Maybe just t
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by ssttoo 10y ago
To your first question, I think the easiest is to upload to FB, or Theta360 (the makers of the popular cameras, e.g. https://theta360.com/s/dAKje30mhbrEIpEcWC3Hs4YzY ) or youtube and then use each site's "embe
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by ssttoo 10y ago
I remember reading some of the kid's books and I think it was BFG with so many made-up words that I was thinking "here's a start up name, and another one, and for sure no one has bought this domain. Good times :)
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Brotli compression for the web(calendar.perfplanet.com)
88 points by ssttoo 11y ago|42 comments
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Images and Chroma-Subsampling(calendar.perfplanet.com)
25 points by ssttoo 11y ago|2 comments
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Upgrading from JPEGTran to MozJPEG(calendar.perfplanet.com)
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by ssttoo 11y ago
yeah, possibly. This is old reasearch [1] with oldish minifiers (e.g. no UglifyJS) and only one script - jQuery from 5 years ago. However I don't expect large discrepancies if the reseasrch is duplicated with new modifiers and larger s
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by ssttoo 11y ago
"Gzipping alone gives you about 70% savings and minification alone cuts script sizes with more than half. Both combined (minifying then gzipping) can make your scripts 85% leaner." http://www.bookofspeed.com/chapte

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